Posts Tagged Nubs

Well, it turned out that my boss for the project just wanted to talk and tell me I did a good job. Just got the check today, so tomorrow morning, I’ll be making a BIG trip to my two favorite local hobby stores. (Tammies Hobbies in Beaverton, then HobbyTown USA in Portland.) If anyone wants to meet up, send me a message on the GPBG forums! Course, first I’ve gotta go buy some new shoes…

As for what my updated backlog will contain, I’ll post that after I’ve purchased them. (Don’t want anyone going out and ninjaing my purchases… =_= Already lost one of my purchases to someone else…)

Meanwhile, nub removal on the Unicorn continues.

As you can see, it’s feeling a bit self-conscious about missing a leg while I worked on it. But in the end, it liked the fixes, and even accepted the existence of it’s flaws.

I DID break it in a few places while trying to separate it for nub removal… Glued the parts back together with Tamiya cement and I’m hoping for the best. (If anyone has some suggestions for how to properly unhinge and remove parts from a HG kit without breaking them, I’m all ears!) I DO have to say that the kit looks WAY better without the nubs. Not quite sure why I didn’t remove them in the first place… Oh yeah! That’s it! I was being lazy. ^_^’

I also finished assembling the main body of the Musai. (No new picts though…) Just have to build the Koumusai then I can paint it!

My computer crashed on Friday morning. Not sure what happened, but when I went to my computer, the username and password had been erased. Maybe my system got hacked. Maybe I got a virus. Maybe the random reboot my system does when it gets cold caused a blip on my hard-drive, corrupting my password. No matter what the cause, the result was the same; I had to spend most of Friday getting Windows reinstalled, and Saturday was spent reinstalling most of my base software. (My more commonly used programs.)

So, to kill time while I wait for things to install, and to wait until I can prime my HG Burning Gundam, I pulled down my HGUC Unicorn Gundam, took him apart, and started removing the nubs.

New in the gallery are various photos I’ve taken over the last few days, of the work I’ve done. So far, I’ve managed to clean the right arm, the chest, head, backpack and the abdomen. All that’s left to do is both legs, the left arm, and the hip/skirt.

I’m thinking of changing the front page in a few ways, but I’m not sure yet. Looking for plugins to do what I want, but more than likely, I’ll either have to write one myself, or write the functionality into my current theme.

Did some work on HG Burning Gundam today. Mostly, I took apart the legs and removed all the nubs, in prep for the coming paint job. Going to try and build the chest tonight. Maybe the arms…

But I also have to get some work done tonight so I can AFFORD the airbrush, but I’ve been feeling rather lethargic lately… Not sure why… Maybe because it’s hot and humid… I don’t like it…

My Birthday is coming up soon, (July 10th) so hopefully I’ll get something good, or at least some money to get something good. Hoping to buy myself a big model as a present, but my current airbrush selection (plus all the gear I need to do it safely) is going to cost me around $173 USD. Probably won’t be able to get a big kit, like a PG, as I also need to get things like shoes, and other mundane supplies. Would love to get a 1/400 Musai model I found for sale…

I’m also on the look-out for a 1/400 scale White Base for less than $200. (Preferably with free S&H.) If you know of one for sale (NOT eBay) please let me know!

Both are WIP, and are only prebuilds. (Check their galleries for more images.) Burning is still on my worktable, as I want to finish prebuilding and cleaning his nubs so I can get an airbrush and paint him. Once I’ve finished cutting my teeth on the Burning Gundam, I’ll do some runner tests, then paint the Unicorn Gundam. Really looking forwards to that, since those two kits will be preludes to my building & airbrushing my RX-78-2 One Year War (Game Edition) kit. After that, Zeong is gonna get some love. After that, I’m not sure what to do.

I also have a 1/1700 Scale Musai to build, but that looks like it’s going to be a bit tricky. I thought the kit was going to be bigger than it actually is… If I can get another project in soon, I’m hoping to get a 1/400 scale Musai and/or White Base. Not sure where I’ll put them, but I would love to have them. Anyways, all this is leading up to the kit that I want to spend the most time & skill on, my 1/60 scale AV-98 INGRAM Patlabor from the first movie. This is an OLD kit, as in, it was printed/made in 1993. In trying to research it, I could only find one website that even MENTIONED this kit, so I want it to be perfect.